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Te Pō

When love leaves you and you find her again in the dark

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October
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About

The danger in falling in love is that one day it's going to end.
Then you are left loving something that is not physical, like reaching for a glass that's no longer there. That's when your life turns from fact to fiction, at least the differences between the two become irrelevant. How precariously our lives flicker against this approaching dark.
Te Pō is about grief, Bruce Mason, object based philosophy, and how truth and fiction are really the same. Three very different characters - Reverend Athol Sedgewick, Detective Inspector Brett and Werihe - are looking for Bruce Mason, who has gone missing. Their investigation into his disappearance seems to reveal more about themselves than him; and when Bruce is finally found on Te Parenga Beach, a terrible truth about their own lives is revealed. Te Pō leaves no theatrical stone unturned in its mission to give us all a unique view of the world.
Originally co-produced with Auckland Arts Festival and New Zealand Festival.

Awards:

2016
Winner - Excellence Award - Auckland Theatre Awards
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"That’s great theatre, right there. When the impossible works, right in front of you, and it clambers right into your heart."

Simon Wilson / Metro
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"This is imaginative and ambitious theatre, unafraid to ask the big questions, probing the nature of existence and grief. Reminding us that life can be funny and sad, meaningless and significant, universal and personal, all at the same time"

Theatre Scenes
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"...inventive and intelligent...an incredibly satisfying experience."

John Daly-Peoples / NBR Business Review
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